[dragonwriter]

> I'm talking about the car's ethical choices in crashes, not the ethics of the programmers.

Cars are not entities to which ethics can be ascribed; the humans building, designing, and programming them are.

[drdeca]

I think another way to phrase what you are saying is that "Cars are not moral agents." .

Apparently there has been some disagreement as to whether cars can be moral agents?

[mikeash]

Let me clarify: the topic here is specifically the ethics of whoever in a crash where the car may be able to get different people killed depending on what actions it takes. Speed limits and DRM are an entirely different topic.